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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are a giant financial sink hole with no upside.
I've had three and all are teenagers now. They are total jerks and act like they know it all. The oldest is heading to college next year so even when they turn 18 they are not off the books.
Without kids my net worth would be a lot more.

I love them but they are not useful to me. I was researching state law recently and ran across a few sections that discussed a parent legal right to all earned income of their children. It got me thinking that once children worked and contributed to the household. Any more they just suck up resources and provide absolutely no benefit to anyone.

My wife says they are going to help us when we are old. I calculated it up and if I had invested all the money spent on kids there would be more than enough to pay for high quality elder care. I think that might have worked out better than expecting children not to move away and show up once a week to see if we fell down a broke a hip.[/quote]

Mow you know how ypur parents felt abput you.  Sucks doesnt it?  You should have stopped at one.[/quote]

It's unfair to compare OP's experience with his kids. Remember, when OP was a kid, he probably didn't cost his parents beyond the food they fed him and boys were happy with a bicycle and didn't need all the Fortnite, Xbox BS that they have today. I can understand where OP is coming from because it's the truth. Children are a time and money suck and the only reason people can still choose to have them and not go crazy and bankrupt is to justify to themselves how much they love their kids, and how their kids will continue the bloodline. The concept of parental love is actually a 20th century ideal as parents never used to have kids deliberately but rather just had unprotected sex. That's how families ended up with 5,6,7,8 children. But those were also the days when children typically worked to support the family and younger siblings and occupied an adult's role through work and weren't economically useless like they are today. With the advent of birth control and women's autonomy over their reproductive decisions, people can choose to not have ANY children. Saves money and heartache. [/quote]

You don't know how old the op is.  Sure there wasn't some things that we have today but, op  could have been spoiled and unappreciative of his parents too!  Also, op isn't so bright and should have stopped at one and figured out this before now.

What are we supposed to do with this information?  Pity op?  or pity the kids?[/quote]

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